Where is this?

I’m surrounded by eternal darkness. It’s here, it’s there, it’s everywhere and cover everything, no trace of light can be found.

Is this … the neither world?

Am I … dead?

“You are not dead, my son”

A voice suddenly rang after my back, a voice that I recognized.

I turned around, there stand a hooded woman whose face can’t be seen clearly. I don’t remember having seen her before.

“You! Who are you? Are you the one appeared in my dreams? No, more importantly, where is this”

“You are impatient, my son. Don’t forget, through patience come the knowledge”

“Get … to … the … point, please. I had too much surprise in one day for my whole life time already”

“Very well. I’m a being with different name. Some revered me as “the Goddess of Origin”, some cursed me as “the Mother of all monsters”. But, you can just call me Echidna, or mother would be more appropriate”

“The goddess of Origin, Echidna. What’s her Highness doing out here? No, where is this in the first place”

“This is your inner thought, my son. This is the place where I tried to contact you many times but to no avail, you will is too strong for my current power”

“Contact me? Why didn’t you communicate with me when I was in the temple? And what is that Revelation?”

“What I want to say to you can not be expressed by words, my son. That’s why I sent that “Revelation” to confuse you, for you to lower your guard and I can talk to you directly. But that priest has misunderstood about my intention and just make your will stronger”

Damn Priest! So all that talk about believing in the Goddess is just bull shit.

“You keep calling me “my son”. What do you mean by that? Are you really my mother”

A moment of silent, before she answered with sadness in her voice.

“As expected. You have been sleeping far too long. That painful memories have been sealed deep inside your consciousness without you knowing about it. No other choice, I will show you the history between us, the Titans and the Olympians”

The scene circling us suddenly changed, darkness slowly disappeared and a scene appeared around us. A foundation in a large forest, where strange monsters which I never seen before keep making appearances. A one hundred-head dragon, bird covered with flame and a big snake that have a wing of bat.

“We, the Titans, are sons and daughters of Gaia, the Earth, and Uranus, the Sky. Since birth, we were gifted with great power and immortality. However, we never misuse them, as we are parts of the cycle of nature and living in harmony”

“However, there are foul creatures that live solely for destruction, the Hecatons and Cyclops. We can not turn a blind eye on them. The battle was fierce but finally, we triumph and locked them deep inside Tartarus , the deepest part of Neither world”

The scene shifted to 2 creatures, a giant with 1 eye and a giant with 1000 hands.

“We enjoy peace for a while, taking that time tend to our next generation. However, one day, we received a prophecy “One of Cronos’s children will overthrow the Titan’s rule”. Too scare of the prophecy, Cronos, one of our kin, started swallowing his own children.”

The scene shifted to a dialogue of 2 man, a long-white hair man and a baldy.

“Cronos. This is unacceptable. Our mother, Gaia, won’t stand for this” (Baldy)

“I understand what you want to say, Python. But I can not let our race extinct because of my bloodline. Let me bear this sin alone”

“Hope you prepare for consequences, Cronos. I can’t help you anymore, brother”

The baldy walk away after throwing warning words. The scene shift again, showing a white-hair boy who live alone on a deserted island, with a herd of goats

“Unbeknown to all, our mother,Gaia, too angry with Cronos’s action, had hide the youngest child away from him. The child was brought up healthy and strong, and the seed of revenge grow each day with him. Then one day, he left the island, travelled all around the world, even to Tartarus. There, he made friend with the Cyclops and Hecatons, he learned to use his powers and the ability to manipulate lighting from them.”

“And the destination day had come, Zeus confronted Cronos for his revenge. The battle was last for one year, and finally Zeus emerged victorious. He opened his stomach to rescue his 2 brothers and 3 sisters. After that, he cut Cronos into 5 pieces , throw all over the world and have 5 Great Eagles keep eating those meats daily, to prevent Cronos revive again.”

“None of us, Titans, would want to help him, as we can’t accept his cruel actions. We had hoped with the defeat of Cronos, Zeus’s vengeance will be satisfied. We were wronged. Zeus’s hostility soon turn toward us. He blamed us for ignoring him in many years and vowed to lock us all in Tartarus”

“We were ashamed to face him. We felt guilty for turning a blind eye on his situation. However, Zeus’s madness soon consumed him. He freed the Cyclops and Hecatons in Tartarus and waved war again us”

“The war last for hundred of years, many races perished along it. We were stronger than them, but far outnumbered. Soon, we find ourselves being pushed back and fallen, one by one. At the end, only your father, Python, stand again them”

The scene shifted again, to a big cave with the baldy from last time.

Wait a minute. I know this cave.

It never appeared in my memory before, but I have a strange familiar with this cave.

“So, You finally come, Zeus. Don’t you think you have destroyed enough already”(Baldy)

“Quit your blabbering, old man. You know what I come here for. Hand over your children and come quietly to Tartarus”

“Such ignorant. Don’t forget I’m still your uncle”

“Uncle? Where were you when Cronos swallow my brothers and sisters? Where were you when Cronos destroyed my island just to kill me? ANSWER ME UNCLE, WHERE WERE YOU?”

“Kuh. Leave my children alone. They are innocent”

“Innocent? No one bear the filthy blood of Titans and dare call themselves innocent. I vowed in my name of Zeus I will wipe your blood of this world”

“You have that blood too,Zeus. Don’t forget your father is a Titan”

“Oh, believe me, uncle. I have risen far more than you can imagine. I’m no longer have that filthy blood of your kind in my vein”

“What do you mean by that?”

“Enough chit chat. Cyclops, welcome my uncle to his new home. Make him as comfortable as you could.”

“Graorgh. You won’t take me alive,Zeus”

The baldy transformed into a large hundread-head dragon and took fly. However, he soon stopped by a big thunder coming from sky.

The scene changed to darkness once again.

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“The war between Zeus and Titans end in the victory of Zeus. Your father and other Titans were imprisoned in Tartarus, where they get tortured everyday. Your grandmother,Gaia, too saddened because of her child’s actions had sealed herself in a deep long slumber. With her gone, so as the foundation of youth has completely drained. Without it, our children can’t be blessed with immortality”

“However, before the final battle begin, I have escaped, together with my children to this world.”

Hm?

“Wait, what do you mean by “this world”? This is not the same world where the battle happened?”

“No, my son. We,Titans, have long discovered the world we live are linked together with other worlds. The world where everything began, Earth, the world where only souls can travel, Neitherworld. Your father have discovered that souls from other worlds, not just from Earth, flow to Neitherworld too. And thus we found this world, Fantasia”

“Who am i? Why did I have no memory about all of this?”

“At the conclusion of the war, you were just an egg, my son.We,Titans, stayed in egg form for many years, slowly absorb the essence from the sky, our father, Uranus. After we get strong enough, we will get out from the egg and receive our mother’s blessing, the immortality from foundation of youth”

“How can I can transform? Is that the power of Titan?”

“Yes,my son. All of the Titans have 2 forms, a monstrous form and a humanoid form. We were born with the monstrous form from birth. Then after we mature and learn to control our power, we can transform to humanoid form”

“How come I was always in my humanoid form up till now?”

“You are an exception, my son. Not only you hadn’t received proper power from your grandfather back in Earth, due to our escape. You also lost your grandmother’s immortality blessing”

That’s … suck.

“So, that manticore?”

“He is your elder brother. He was the one who took care of you till you hatched from the egg and was the one who take you to your foster father, Lethos.”

“Why didn’t he raised me himself? Why appeared now?”

“Your humanoid body was so weak and delicate, my son. We don’t know what to do with you, so we sent you to this town, which I once helped from the past. When we deemed you have mature enough, he come here to help you awake your power.”

So, in short, I’m a defective Titan who not only weak but also mortal and can’t take care of myself.

Really great!

“Don’t be so down, my son. Even though you are mortal, you are still my beloved son. We still think of you as our own family. Beside, you are not weak as all”

“What do you mean?”

“This world, Fantasia, is different than our home world. They have a miracle system called magic. None of us can understand or use that, only you can, Reus. You are the only Titan that can use magic. Maybe because you were brought here since you were an egg.”

Oh, I feel a little better now. That explain about that dark flame I created, a mix of Titan’s power and mana.

“Is there anything else you want to talk, mom? I’m a little tired with all these information right now”

“There are 2 things I should warn you, my son. First is,Zeus and his followers has come to this world 200 years ago. They call themselves The Olympians and established rules over the races that lived in this world.You should avoid them at all cost.”

“Can we fight them? Where is my other brothers and sisters?”

“Your brothers and sisters have lived scattered around the land. We never thought Zeus’d come here and were unprepared. Furthermore, Zeus’s power has grown vastly. He learned a way to convert people’s worshipping to power for himself. We can’t fight him now.”

“What about the other thing you want to say?”

“We, the Titan, especially male, have very high sexual desire.”

“Excuse me?”

“We are a race with very few individual, my son. That’s why all the Titans mate a lot with the hope of leaving many off springs. It’s a good thing we do not distinguish races when mate.”

(Author’s note: Dog is included too.)

“That’s not a good thing at all. Why is this Titan sound like a curse to me now? How can this sexual desire disappear?”

“By leaving lots of off springs, of course. Every sons and daughter you have will reduce your sexual needs. There is one other way though, to temporarily reduce it, is to have sex with a virgin.”

Shit. Now it really is a curse blood.

“Has anyone, from our family, tried to resist this curs… ah no, the blood’s calling?”

“One of your brother tried. The result was … undesirable. His partner nearly die from over doing that and in his frenzy craving for sex, he did “that” with a bull.”

The hell was that. I’d kill myself before it happened to me.

“Our time run short, my son. Not long ago after Zeus come to this world, he destroyed my body and sealed me in a faraway island.That’s why I can’t meet you face to face. Just talking to you like this drained my limited energy fast. This is our goodbye”

“Wait! Mom! What happened to that brother after…”

Her figure soon disappeared completely. I soon find myself alone in this void of darkness.

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“This’s strange. All of his condition just implying he is taking a nap.But it’s been 1 week already” (???)

“If tomorrow he hasn’t waken up, I will bring him to the mage guild” (Father’s voice).

I slightly open my eyes and look around. This is my house, and I’m on my bed. Father is discussing something with the town’s herbalist while holding some sort of papers. I tried to use my right hand to stand up, but something is holding it down.

It is Lina.

She is sleeping on a chair while holding my hand.

Her face looks pale and weak, with a dark trim around her eye.

Better let her sleep for now.

“Dad” I meekly called.

“Brat” He hurried to my bed to check my condition ”You finally wake up eh? Took you long time enough”

“Shut it, old man. Give me a break. Why is Lina here?”

“She has been nursing you ever since we found you unconsciousness near the lake. Poor girl, keep crying out loud and refuse to leave your side even a second”

“I’m … indebted to her. Oh dad, come here for a second”

“What’s it,brat”

I used all my strength to hit him on the face with my other hand. I’m still too weak though, as it only created a weak collision sound.

“What’s did you do that for?”

“No reason”

Damn. I still remember that scene when mom force me to transform.